{"id":210210,"date":"2025-03-31T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/zoom-bias-the-social-costs-of-having-a-tinny-sound-during-video-conferences"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:13:20","slug":"zoom-bias-the-social-costs-of-having-a-tinny-sound-during-video-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/zoom-bias-the-social-costs-of-having-a-tinny-sound-during-video-conferences","title":{"rendered":"Zoom bias: The social costs of having a \u2018tinny\u2019 sound during video conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zoom-bias-the-social-costs-of-having-a-tinny-sound-during-video-conferences.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most job candidates know to dress nicely for Zoom interviews and to arrange a professional-looking background for the camera. But a new Yale study suggests they also ought to test the quality of their microphones.<\/p>\n<p>A tinny voice caused by a cheap mic, researchers say, could sink their chances.<\/p>\n<p>Through a series of experiments, the study demonstrates that tinny speech\u2014a thin, metallic sound\u2014during video conferences can have surprisingly deep social consequences, leading listeners to lower their judgments of a speaker\u2019s intelligence, credibility, and romantic desirability. It can also hurt an individual\u2019s chances of landing a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most job candidates know to dress nicely for Zoom interviews and to arrange a professional-looking background for the camera. But a new Yale study suggests they also ought to test the quality of their microphones. A tinny voice caused by a cheap mic, researchers say, could sink their chances. Through a series of experiments, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}